Leviticus 20:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Cross References

Psalm 78:59

When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:24

“Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

Leviticus 18:25

Thus the land became defiled, and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:27

(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.